Manufacture of artificial fuel.



- To all whom it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

ULRICH GANZ, OF NORDHAUSEN, GERMANY; ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT KAHN,

OF I'IELM STEDT, AND MARTIN HEBERLEIN; OF EISENAOH, GERMANY.

l MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Patent No. 686,049, dated November 5.1901.

Application filed March 15 1901. Serial No- 51.358. (Ila specimens.)

Be it.knowi1 that I, ULRICH'GANZ, gen tflemama. subject of the King of Prussia,Emperor of Germany, residing at Nordhausen, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial'Fuel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of artificial fuel. The invention consists in mixing ground raw gypsum with a combustible material,such

as peat orlike substanceof vegetable origin,

whereby an excellent substitute for coal is obtained.

I take about eighty per cent. of ground gypsum andincorp'orate therein twenty per cent.

of peat or a lilie vegetable substance. The

mixture is then formed in bodies of suitable size and shape.

Having now particularly described my inventiou, What I claim as new, and desire-t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a; new article of manufacture, artificial fuel consisting of eighty per cent. of ground gypsumand twenty percent. of peat or its equivalent.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand inpresence of two subscribing wit nesses'.

' ULRICH GANZ; Witnesses WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY HASPER. 

